Maker Studios launches original series with The Fat Jew

Josh Ostrovsky, known by his Internet moniker "The Fat Jew," is partnering with Disney-owned Maker Studios for a new animated series.

Story Time With Fat Jew, which launches on Monday, features tales and adventures from Ostrovsky’s life. The social media star has racked up more than 7.5 million followers across his Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. He also recently released his book, Money Pizza Respect.

Narrated by Ostrovsky himself, the show recounts his own stories — such as running into celebrities like Kanye West — through quirky animation, drawn and animated TMWRK STUDIOS.

"Like a drunk uncle on Thanksgiving, I tell you a bunch of awesome stories that nobody will ever forget and might ruin dinner,” Ostrovsky said in a statement.

The series is the latest from Maker Studios, which has ramped up its original content in the last year with several new series such as animated adventure Pugatory, voiced by PewDiePie and CutiePieMarzia, the digital talk show Party Fun Times, hosted by Taryn Southern, and the skateboard travel adventure The Unge Quest, starring German gamer Simon Unge.

Ostrovsky is an interesting fit for the brand. The Internet star styles himself as aa "joke aggregator" who curates the Internet's funniest bits and pieces and puts together them in one place. But Ostrovsky has come under fire for this so-called aggregation, with many arguing it is actually joke theft.

Still, Bonnie Pan, Maker's executive vice president of programming, said Ostrovsky's "special brand of irreverent humor is a great addition to the Maker voice."

“At the heart of Maker is creative content –- it’s where we started and it’s one of our driving passions,” she said in a statement. “Story Time With Fat Jew is yet another example of our dedication to making audiences laugh."

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